Thanks so much mate! I finally solved it. Kept the extra geo near the circle and nuked a lot of other edge loops. Went back and relaxed some verts and bam! Done.
@ Hboybowen: I'm not really good in doing a time lapse of my work especially not since I believe they would bring up more questions than answers like: "How the fuck was he rotating, moving AND panning the Viewport at the same time with his cursor beeing offscreen selecting Tools!?" But I could find the Tutorials that…